[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-4772) Maintain iteration order for entity bean finders

Maintain iteration order for entity bean finders ------------------------------------------------ Key: AS7-4772 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4772 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Feature Request Components: EJB Affects Versions: 7.1.1.Final, 7.1.2.Final (EAP) Reporter: Mattias Nilsson Grip Assignee: jaikiran pai Labels: ejb2, find, interceptor, iterators, sorting In previous JBoss AS versions (at least in JBoss AS 4.x) if a finder method in an EJB 2.x entity bean returned a collection or enumeration of primary keys in a specific order, the client would receive a collection or enumeration of entities with the same iteration order. In JBoss AS 7, the entity bean home interceptor uses a HashSet when producing the collection of entities. This means iteration order is lost and clients receive the entities in random order. As a convenience and as a backward compatibility for users migrating from previous JBoss versions, could you consider replacing java.util.HashSet with java.util.LinkedHashSet in org.jboss.as.ejb3.component.entity.interceptors.EntityBeanHomeFinderInterceptorFactory? I would be happy to provide a test case and a pull request with this change. Regards, Mattias